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Iris Versicolor

A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica · C. M. Boger

Open remedy: Iris.

For educational use by students and qualified practitioners. Not medical advice. Consult a registered homeopath.

Region:

GLANDS: DIGESTIVE TRACT, LIVER, Pancreas

Right side

Nerves

Worse:

Periodically: Weekly, 2-3 AM, Spring and fall, After midnight

Mental exhaustion

Hot weather

Better:

Gentle motion

Affections accompanied by rapid elimination. Sour, acrid, BURNING excretions Oily nose, greasy taste and fatty stool. Headache, with diarrhoea. Mouth feels greasy, burnt or scalded. Tongue feels cold. Sweet taste. Profuse ropy saliva Sour-bitter belching (Nux-v). Continuous nausea, bitter, acrid vomiting, urging to stool and profuse urine, with periodic visual disturbances, blindness, hemiopia, etc, accompany ophthalmic migraine (r); involving teeth BILIOUS, WATERY, SOUR OR ACRID VOMITUS, WITH BURNING. Burning; < along whole digestive tract; not > by cold drinks. Sore over liver. BILIOUS, ACRID, WATERY STOOLS; BURN LIKE FIRE. Painless cholera morbus. Diabetes. Goitre. Zoster (r) The hip feels wrenched out Shooting laming pains along limb. Sciatica (l)

Relations

Related: Ars, Merc, Pho.

What is in this library

These titles sit beside the repertory: Allen’s Keynotes, Anshutz on the twelve tissue remedies, Boericke’s materia medica, Clarke’s Dictionary, Hering, Jones, Kent’s lectures, Nash, and Boger’s Synoptic Key. Philosophy includes Hahnemann’s Organon (5th and 6th), Kent, Close, Burnett, Haehl, Gibson Miller, Royal, J. H. Allen, and Anshutz. Clinical, therapeutics, regional works, and short remedy pictures follow the same shelf.

Chapter text is on this shelf for study: open a title, then a heading. When a medicine appears in more than one materia medica, switch authors on the chapter to compare how each describes it. For educational use by students and qualified practitioners. Not medical advice.

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